The Black Creature of Typhoid Rats is a colossal, cultured nation, notable for its aversion to nipples, pith helmet sales, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 3.175 billion Typhoid Ratsians, 1.462 billion of whom are zombies, are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Sewers. The average income tax rate is 74.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Typhoid Ratsian economy, worth 429 trillion Cards a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 134,965 Cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Player-submitted issues are printed just so they can be burned by [violet] (Typhoid Rats has found 2 easter eggs), school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp, pet owners are granted clemency from being ritually sacrificed, and criticism of Leader is considered unpatriotic. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Typhoid Rats's national animal is the Rat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Typhoid Rats is ranked 23,143^rd in the world and 5^th in MTG TCG for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 24,492.53 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.